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i just got a baby iguana two days ago & she dont want to eat, i need help i dont know how to take ca

i just got a baby iguana two days ago & she dont want to eat, i need help i dont know how to take ca2007-11-24 2:00:58

Please go to the links provided, which is Melissa Kaplin's site. She has done much good for Iguanas and reptiles in general. She really knows what she is doing.


Bluntly, if you have to ask here, you SHOULD NOT have an iguana.

They are not reptiles for beginners. Far, far from it.

Iguanas have very specialized feeding and housing requirements. They can't live on lettuce any more than you can, and what they DO need to eat will take a significant amount of time and effort on your part to obtain and prepare properly. They require regular vet checkups, including blood tests for proper calcium/phosphorus balance. They grow huge -- as in up to six feet long. Yes, a lot of that is tail, but you're still talking about a lizard that is going to need a room of its own. Males often become insanely vicious during their mating season, when they think everything they see is a rival male. Females can become eggbound and need surgery or they will die. An iguana bite can be serious; I had one that decided one day to check out whether one of my fingers was edible, and casually gnawed on it; I have scars that go to the bone and after seven years, I still don't have all the feeling back in that finger. Never will.

As a rule of thumb, I'd say that nobody who has been keeping reptiles for less than five years, and who has not kept at least five different species of lizards successfully, should even think about getting an iguana.

Best beginner reference: Iguanas for Dummies.

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